When you connect through a VPN your connection goes through a ‘VPN tunnel‘.

This tunnel is your own private gateway to the internet, and once you go through it you come out differently than you come in.

First, your IP address changes according to the server you chose to connect through.

If you connect through a UK server, your IP address would now show a UK address, and this is exactly what you eventually would need to do in order to unblock UK television in the US.

Second, extra security layers are now added (Congrats!)

Your connection will become encrypted and much more secure and private than ever before.

None of your browsing or identifying data could be traced or monitored when you are using a VPN.

Since watching UK television shows outside the UK is a copyrights violation, a VPN will make sure you are protected and your identity cannot be revealed.

How to watch UK Television in the US?

Perhaps the most common question of all, how do I get access to British television shows when I’m in the USA?

It doesn’t really matter if you want to watch a British channel from the US or from anywhere else outside Great Britan, there are strict copyright laws that prevent you from doing so.

Since most British channels broadcast exclusive content, and are bound by royalty payments, commercial agreements with advertisers and non-distribution copyright laws, they are forbidden to allow anyone outside the UK access.

If you are in the US, here’s a list of the most popular television channels that are blocked for watching:

BBC One

BBC Two

ITV (1-4)

Sky (such as Sky News, Sky Sports)

CBS

Channel 4

All of these channels do not have commercial agreements with the US and therefore, broadcasting them in the US would be a copyright law violation.

If you try to access CBS from example from outside the UK, here’s what it will look like:

Daniel Krupp is the editor in chief of vpnlocker.com. He Served at an intelligence unit at the US military, specializing in Cyber-Security. This is where he first learned the importance of cyber-security and the tools that should be used to accomplish it. He became an expert in understanding and utilizing VPN’s and other proxies to unblock websites and online services. Daniel consults and writes VPN reviews, VPN guides and useful tricks and hacks for a better, freer internet.